• Ripley, the hairless, feline mascot of genre bookstore Borderlands Books, has won the Stuff on my Cat contest.


• A timely read in light of The Great Pratchett Reading Project...ABC.net.au interviews Terry Pratchett. [via Locus Online]


• LabLit interviews Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the upcoming book Sixty Days and Counting. [via Confessions of a Science Librarian]


• SCI FI Wire got a chance to peruse the set of The Golden Compass.


• Firefly-related news: Summer Glau (River) has joined the cast of The Sarah Conner Chronicles, and Joss Whedon will be directing an episode of The Office.


• Someone has set up a LiveJournal for Hugo Award Nominee Recommendations. [via James Nicoll]


• Reason Online offers insight into the convoluted politics of zombie cinema. [via Backwards City]


• Escape Pod podcasts a Mike Resnick young adult story "The Boy Who Yelled 'Dragon'".


• Here's S. Andrew Swann's definition of science fiction.


• Nethermore looks at cover designs. [via Tobias Buckell]


• SF Bookworm has A Baker's Dozen of Collectable Genre Artists.


• Friday video: Burning Safari, a short animated film with robots and monkeys. [via Chris Roberson]


• Believe it or Not: BBT Mag has An Open Letter to William Katt.


• Ladies and Gentlemen...well, mostly gentlemen...Nudity in Science Fiction.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Friday February 09, 2007 at 12:02 AM
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